EN / Labour Mobility in the European North seminar 11.–12.4.

Labour Mobility in the European North seminar 11.–12.4.

Labour Mobility in the European North seminar 11.–12.4.

25.3.2013

Labour mobility seminar will be hold at University of Lapland 11th and 12th of April. Themes of the seminar are for example foreign berry pickers in Finnish and Swedish Lapland, mobility of highly educated employees and trade union responses to transnational labour mobility.

Keynote speaker is professor Karen O'Reilly from Loughborough University in UK. She has been researching British retirees in Spain and lifestyle travelling and published many texts about ethnography as a research method. Another international speakers are Aina Tollefsen from Sweden and Marit Aure and Johan Fredrik for Norway, who are researchers of migration and working life.

Organizer of the seminar is Steady Work in a Shifting Society project together with TyöVerkko graduate school.

Seminar is open to the public and it is free of charge. Registration by 8th of April by sending an e-mail to saara.koikkalainen (at) gmail.com. The seminar will be hold in English.

The programme:

THURSDAY 11.4.  Lecture hall LS16, University of Lapland main building (Yliopistonkatu 8)

9:45    Arrival and coffee

10:15   Asko Suikkanen, professor, University of Lapland: Opening words

10:30   Keynote address: Karen O´Reilly, professor, Loughborough University: Practice theory for international migration

11:30   Lunch break

12:30   Johan Fredrik Rye, professor, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim: Lost in transnational space? Migrant farm workers in rural districts in Norway

13:15   Rolle Alho, doctoral candidate at LabourNet / University of Turku: Trade union responses to transnational labour mobility in Finland and Estonia

14:00   Coffee break

14:30   Aina Tollefsen, university lecturer, Umeå University: Temporary Work Migration - The disciplining of seasonal laborers in the Swedish berry industry

15:15-  Pekka Rantanen, doctoral candidate, University of Tampere: Thai berry pickers in Finnish Lapland
16:00

FRIDAY 12.4. Lecture hall LS6

9:00    Marit Aure, research scientist, Northern Research Institute (Norut), Tromsø: Highly skilled migration - a seamless transfer of skills and people?

9:45-10:30   Saara Koikkalainen, doctoral candidate at LabourNet / University of Lapland: Strategies of labor market participation: highly skilled Finns in Europe

Additional information:
Researcher
Saara Koikkalainen
tel. +358 45 112 8670, saara.koikkalainen (at) ulapland.fi


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